Edinburgh International Film Festival

The UK's oldest film festival has always championed homegrown product, but it's surprising how much of it they've found this year, both old and new. Most of the British entries are so brand new, it's almost a lucky dip, but last year's festival brought us Moon and Fish Tank, among others, so here's hoping. Promising-sounding premieres include SoulBoy, recreating the heyday of northern soul's epicentre; the Wigan Casino; urban horror Cherry Tree Lane (from London To Brighton director Paul Andrew Williams); and buddyship drama Third Star. Or for something a little stranger, try Jackboots On Whitehall, an animated alternative history of the second world war; Rhys Ifans as Howard Marks in Mr Nice; Kaufman-esque comedy Skeletons; or HP Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, an "audio movie" with no images at all.

For older aficionados, there's also a trove of rediscovered British films from the 1960s and 70s. The names are familiar but the movies probably aren't: Stephen Frears, Michael Apted, Ken Russell or, taking the obscurity prize, Powell and Pressburger's 1972 kids' sci-fi The Boy Who Turned Yellow. Guest of honour is Sean Connery, who celebrates his 80th birthday with a special screening of The Man Who Would Be King.

On the international front, Sylvain "Belleville-Rendezvous" Chomet's animation The Illusionist is partly set in Edinburgh; Argentinian The Secret In Their Eyes was this year's Best Foreign Film Oscar; Kristen Stewart plays Joan Jett in The Runaways; and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done offers the enticing prospect of David Lynch producing Werner Herzog's follow-up to Bad Lieutenant, with Willem Dafoe.

Secret Cinema, London

Secret Cinema is becoming Britain's worst-kept secret. Last month's event saw 2,500 people gather in Shepherd's Bush for a mystery film, and this one is their biggest yet, lasting six days. You never know what you're getting and that's half the fun. The other half is the experience itself. Last time it was Wim Wenders's Wings Of Desire, augmented by a live cabaret show featuring knife-throwers and trapeze artists, in a cinema made up like a little corner of West Berlin. We can't tell you what to expect this time, of course, but we did manage to wring this picture clue out of them. And no, it's not Rambo. There'll be further clues on Twitter (@secretcinema).

Refugee Week, Nationwide

Things are going on around the country for this annual event (visit refugeeweek.org.uk), but one that everyone can access is an online film festival hosted by Brightwide – a site specialising in social and political cinema, the issues around the films, and ways to take action. For this event, they've rounded up a handful of titles on the theme of exile, exclusively available to watch online. Opening the proceedings is Michael Winterbottom's seminal In This World, tracing two Afghani refugees' journey from Pakistan to London. Other entries include Philippe Lioret's Welcome, a French drama focused on a Kurdish teen aiming to swim over to Britain; Iranian underground rockumentary No One Knows About Persian Cats; plus relatively unseen docs like La Forteresse (on a Swiss immigrant processing centre) and Moving To Mars, following two Burmese families making their way to a better life in Sheffield.